What is the Principle of Original Horizontality?
Answer: Sedimentary rocks are close to horizontal when deposited.
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Discuss three important environmental impacts that are a result of the normal operation of a nuclear power plant.
By what criteria are planets considered either terrestrial or Jovian?
What will be an ideal response?
Use the map-view diagram of a group of tectonic plates to answer the question. Note: Not all features are shown for all boundaries.
What is the relative direction of motion for points A and D?
A. Transform B. Convergent C. Divergent
Satellite observations show Arctic ________
A) animals will do better as the ocean warms B) sea ice is drifting to lower and lower latitudes C) vegetation is getting more sparse because of warming temperatures D) air pollution is the direct cause of warming in the region E) glacial ice is now undergoing more extreme melting then decades ago